Hellblade looks like a dead end game, coming up with ideas for games is hard but doing a generic sword slasher and pinning everything on how "realistic" it looks seems to be the wrong way to go about it.

Vall Forran wrote on Aug 5, 2015, 19:07:I'm not sold on the planetary landing thing. I thought they were going to have you be able to dock and then leave your ship and walk around...more to just get out of the ship. But that would require a fps mode which is outside of FD's scope. The whole mako thing seems like a stop-gap measure. Power play wasn't very well received...it's kind of why I don't play much anymore.

I'm pretty sure FPS module is still in the plans for ED, if the game lasts long enough to warrant one.

There's your "bots" in multiplayer, and no you won't be able to turn them off and fill them with human players.

I think they realize that the lifespan of multiplayer is getting shorter and shorter, you have an initial rush to play the game and then it drops off sharply. They might obscure the number of active players playing the game by counting bots as players, that is if they actually report the number of players in game in the first place.

They're going to casual the crap out of this game with auto-target tracking reticules and lock on missiles with no countermeasures. And that might not be a bad thing because you always get some jackass who plays the game non stop 24/7 and smears everyone else from the map - anyone who's ever played "air superiority" mode in BF4 can attest to that.

They need to ramp up the procedurally generated content to fill in the void of everything being the same. I was hoping for more variety in the space station designs for example.

I wonder how they plan on implementing multiplayer into this type of expansion, I guess there will be limits on what you can do on the planet surface - no blowing up other player ships for example. Will you have the freedom to land anywhere or will it just be a "seamless" cutscene to the planet surface?

DangerDog wrote on Aug 4, 2015, 17:14:They announced that you won't be able to use guns anymore, I hate games where you see guns everywhere but can't pick one up. I think they did a good job balancing out the shooter aspects with the physical fighting in the first one, besides it breaks up the monotony a little bit.

They'll probably replace the gun fights with a bunch of lame quicktime take down moves. You shall run around and jump, not shoot people. The enemy that shows up now and then is supposed to be an obstacle that makes it difficult for you to reach your goal

You forget something: This isnt any FPS but a parkour game! You shall run around and jump, not shoot people... The enemy that shows up, now and then, is supposed to be an obstacle that makes it more difficult for you to reach your goal.

It still should be up to the player if they want to pick up a gun and use it, they artificially gimped the gunplay in the first one and I'm perfectly fine with that.

ViRGE wrote on Aug 4, 2015, 19:22:No snark intended here, but is anyone actually playing Hardline these days?

It's not a bad game but the maps are rather bland, depending on the time of day you look there are just a handful of active servers. I think they should add some sort of bots to multiplayer mode but the answer seems to be to focus on adding game modes that require fewer people.

They announced that you won't be able to use guns anymore, I hate games where you see guns everywhere but can't pick one up. I think they did a good job balancing out the shooter aspects with the physical fighting in the first one, besides it breaks up the monotony a little bit.

They'll probably replace the gun fights with a bunch of lame quicktime take down moves.

DangerDog wrote on Aug 2, 2015, 15:55:It's funny how people are willing to give up their privacy just so they can talk into a microphone and ask stupid questions like what's the weather. At the very least if you're going to be willing to be data mined then you should get something out of it.

Now all those people complaining about privacy concerns raise your hands since you likely use a iphone and it does the same thing.

I don't know about other people but I use my computer very differently than a smartphone, and as a general rule I would never access any personal security sensitive material with my phone such as online banking.

Of course it's all about dumbing down the masses, if you can just speak and search it's a lot easier than learning how to type on a keyboard. The MS store will become popular with the masses for the same reason, convenience and ease of access.

Saboth wrote on Aug 2, 2015, 15:59:Think I'm just going to wait a few months to install. There aren't any games that need DX 12 yet, and I'm happy with Windows 7. I also want to get another SSD just to install Windows 10 to, because my old SSD is almost full (hopefully you can pick your install disk). I'm hoping MS will backpedal on all of this spyware and social media crap and disable it from the start, like they backpedaled on all of the bad stuff on Xbox One.

I feel like the reason this OS is free is they are going to try to market the hell out of your personal info and advertise to you or something. I'd rather just pay $100 and get all of that crap.

Anyone know what happens when you need to upgrade your PC or do a fresh install? In the past, you'd just pop in your Windows disk and install from scratch.

You can transfer your current install to the new SSD, lots of free programs to do this. Just one as an example.

They won't go back on the advertising model of income generation, that's here to stay.

You need to update your current OS install to windows 10, upon doing that your system is logged with a unique ID based on your hardware that it's licensed for Windows 10. Once you've done that you're free to do clean installs on your system, you just "skip" the step where it asks for a registration key.

detailed guide on tweaking the privacy level for 10, I imagine they'll turn some of this stuff back on secretly with updates.

It's funny how people are willing to give up their privacy just so they can talk into a microphone and ask stupid questions like what's the weather. At the very least if you're going to be willing to be data mined then you should get something out of it.